Monthly Archives: May 2015
Reviewing Thailand’s monarchy
Late last year, crusading journalist Andrew MacGregor Marshall’s long-awaited book A Kingdom in Crisis: Thailand’s Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century was published by Zed Books. The Journal of Contemporary Asia has just published a review article of this … Continue reading
Vietnam’s politics
Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Party, State and Authority Relations is a new book edited by Jonathan London at City University of Hong Kong. The collection is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Arve Hansen, from the Centre for Development and the Environment, … Continue reading
Resistance and subaltern studies 3
The third article for the feature section of our forthcoming Issue 4 in 2015 edited by Uday Chandra and Kenneth Bo Nielsen is now available at the JCA website. Part of the feature titled Rethinking Resistance: Subaltern Politics and the … Continue reading
Resistance and subaltern studies 2
Issue 4 in 2015 will include several articles in a collection edited by Uday Chandra and Kenneth Bo Nielsen titled Rethinking Resistance: Subaltern Politics and the State in Contemporary India. The special examines critically examines the development of subaltern studies … Continue reading
Media and politics
In 2013, JCA published a special issue on “New Media in Asia” in Volume 43, No. 4. That special was guest edited and introduced by Jason Abbott at the University of Kentucky. His introduction was titled “Assessing the Social and … Continue reading
On North Korea
In a new review article at JCA, Jihyun Kim’s “Understanding the Hermit Kingdom As It Is and As It Is Becoming: The Past, Present and Future of North Korea” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1040820) examines several recent books and collections on the so-called … Continue reading
Issue 3 for 2015 published
The latest issue of the Journal of Contemporary Asia is now available online. The issue includes seven research articles, one review article and seven book reviews: Articles Optimism and Education: The New Ideology of Development in Indonesia by Paul K. … Continue reading
Free access to Rethinking Marxism
As part of the political sociology collection, Routledge has made 2013 and 2014 issues of Rethinking Marxism available with free access. All of the content of Rethinking Marxism published in 2013 and 2014 can be downloaded.
Political sociology collection
Routledge has invited readers to enjoy free access to its Political Sociology article collection, including more than 200 articles exploring: Movements & Thinkers Nations & States Social Stratification
JCA 